DEEP AND COMPREHENSIVE FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS (DCFTA-s) between EU and Eastern Partners

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DEEP AND COMPREHENSIVEFREE TRADE AGREEMENTS
(DCFTA-s) between EU and Eastern Partners

• Moonika Rosme
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• External Trade Division
• moonika.rosme_at_mfa.ee
• DCFTA Round Table, Nov 19, 2009

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DCFTA Gradual integration into EU economy

• The objective of DCFTA forms an integral part of
  the Association Agreements.
• Mutual market access through a DCFTA. Open
  markets and economic integration are essential to
  the development.
• A longer-term goal creation of a network of
  bilateral agreements among the partners, possibly
  leading to the creation of a Neighbourhood
  Economic Community.

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DCFTA

• Goes beyond WTO rules. Covers substantially all
  trade in goods and services between EU and
  partners and aims at the highest possible degree
  of liberalisation.
• Covers domains like rules of origin, sustainable
  development, intellectual property right, public
  procurement, customs etc.
• Includes strong legally-binding provisions on
  trade and economic regulatory issues.

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Preparatory process

• Need to show the level of preparedness to put up
• with the effects of such an ambitious agreement
  (far-reaching market access liberalisation,
  regulatory approximation)

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Level of preparedness

• Partner countries - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
  Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova
• Tailor-made approach - need to be tailored and
  sequenced to take account of each partner
  countrys economic circumstances and state of
  development, including a certain level of
  asymmetry if appropriate.

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Ongoing DCFTA negotiations

• Ukraine
• Launch of negotiations on February 2008
• Ongoing negotiations
• Progress needed regulatory approximation
  (competition, SPS - sanitary and phyto-sanitary
  measures)

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Ongoing preparatory process for DCFTA
negotiations

• Georgia
• FTA feasibility study in spring 2008
• fact finding mission in autumn 2008
• COM assessment on March 2009
• Progress needed Institutional capacity, SPS
  (sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures), TBT
  (technical barriers to trade - need to start
  working on technical regulations and standards
  for industrial products), competition, IPR-
  intellectual property right

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Ongoing preparatory process for DCFTA
negotiations

• Armenia
• FTA feasibility study in spring 2008
• fact finding mission in spring 2009
• COM assessment on May 2009
• Progress needed Institutional capacity, TBT, SPS
• Moldova
• FTA feasibility study on September 2009

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Technical support

• Mapping the needs
• Application already during the preparatory
  process (to meet the necessary conditions)
• Cooperation with COM, technical support
• Cooperation with EU member states, bilateral
  technical support

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Handouts

• List of experts
• Proposals of the Ministry of Agriculture for
  development cooperation in the field of
  agriculture

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